Posted on 03/24/2014 1:51:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Cars were set alight and stink bombs set off after a far-left demo against “state repression” descended into chaos in Berlin over the weekend.
Two policemen were injured and 17 protesters arrested in the 12-hour long police operation across the city, which saw almost 2,000 officers deployed.
Organizers said they were protesting against heavy-handed police tactics such as those seen in Hamburg in early January, where disturbances led to a long crackdown and police restricted zone.
Over the course of the weekend, an estimated 1,300 people took to the streets in Kreuzberg, Moabit and Friedrichshain including feminists, members of the Turkish workers movement and refugees from the protest camp at Oranienplatz. …
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Makes me wanna throw up
What’s interesting is that there are no “Far Left” protests over the Russian seizure of Crimea.
Imagine if a Western country had pulled similar stunt. The street wars would be in full glory right now.
“Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”
Round up the usual suspects...
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